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...circling was also tight among the N.R.A. members who felt enough devotion to lay down good money to attend the five-day conference in Phoenix. While many members allowed that the N.R.A. leadership's rhetoric was over the top, many also strongly perceive a government campaign to strip them of the ability to defend themselves. "That final loss of all weapons is a real fear for a lot of us," says Phillips of the Colorado N.R.A. "We've heard federal people talk about the disarming of America, and we'll take them at their word." They firmly adhere...
GESO had announced it would strike if the Yale administration did not agree by March 31 to open negotiations. The deadline passed last week and the five-day strike involving more than 350 teaching assistants began Monday...
Graduate teaching assistants at Yale University will begin a five-day strike today, following repeated refusals by university administrators to allow them to form a labor union...
...year ago, on Feb. 28, Brady became law. Its five-day waiting period allows local law-enforcement authorities time to perform the background check that is intended to weed out felons and others who are denied handguns. The law applied immediately to the 30 states that had no similar regulations on the books and prompted others to put in place computer checks that permit a yes or no answer within minutes, sparing buyers the five-day wait...
...jungle undemarcated when the document was ratified in 1948. Ecuadorians never fully accepted their defeat, and by 1960 the Quito government had repudiated the agreement. Minor border skirmishes have occurred ever since, usually around the treaty's Jan. 29 anniversary. In 1981 the potshots turned into a serious five-day battle; in 1991 no shots were fired, but diplomatic relations were sorely tested after Peru built a military base in the disputed area...